Improved clothes-wringer



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMEON F. EMERSON, OF SEVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVED CLOTH ES-WRINGER.

Speeiiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,380, dated May 5, 1863.

To aZZ whom, it may concern;

Beit known that I, SiMEoN F. EMERSON, of Seville, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Im provements in Olothes-Vringers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation ot' thev same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in whichv Figure l is a iront view. Fig. 2 is an end view, and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are sections.

My invention and improvement relate to the method herein described for producing an increased or diminished pressure between the rollers by means of stirrups embracing the upper rollerjournals, which stirrups are pressed downward by means of a spring below the frame, and to which an increased pressure can at pleasure be communicated by means of the combined action of awedge and thumbscrew, operating as hereinafter described, so that when the machine is not in use the pressure can be wholly removed and again readily reproduced when the machine is needed for use.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Arepresents the frame ot' the machine, and B B represent the rollers.

C U are standards that risc irom the frame A, and serve as boxes for the journals of the lower roller, B, and as guides for the journals of the upper roller,B.

D D represent the stirrups that embrace the journals of the upper roller, B. These pass down upon the outside of the standards C G,

and each receives at its lower end one end of the spring E. This spring is made of steel or other suitable material, and hasits middle and convex part resting against a wedge or key, F, (shown in Fig. 4 in place and detached in Fig. 5,) which wedgeis interposed betweenthe middle of the spring and frame, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4C. The wedge F forms contact with a transverse rib, et, upon the lower side vof the frame. The thin end of the wedge is enlarged, as shown in the figures, to prevent it from coming ont when not under pressure. At the middle of the spring there is a thumbscrew, Gr, whose point forms contact with the Wedge F, and this constitutes the fnlcrum or bearing-pointfor the spring. In use the Wedge is shoved in more or less, according to the amount of pressure desired to be obtained, and the thumbscrew turned so as to bring the point of the screw rmly against the wedge. More or less tension can be given to the spring by moving the wedge in or out, and when the machine is not in use the wedge is shoved entirely back, which relieves the pressure between the rollers.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The Wedge Fand thumb-screw G, when arranged and operated as and for the purpose set forth.

S IMEON F. E MERSON.

Witnesses J. BRAINERD, WV. H. BURRIDGE. 

